information about packages
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Hi there i want a site in order to find the following information for packages.
For example if i want to find info about Diffutils_(2.8.1): something like the above i want to appear


Diffutils


For installation instructions see the Section called Installing Diffutils-2.8.1 in Chapter 6.


Official Download Location


Diffutils_(2.8.1):
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/


Contents of Diffutils


The programs from this package show you the differences between two files or directories. It's most common use is to create software patches.


Installed programs: cmp, diff, diff3 and sdiff




Short descriptions


cmp compares two files and reports whether or in which bytes they differ.


diff compares two files or directories and reports which lines in the files differ.


diff3 compares three files line by line.


sdiff merges two files and interactively outputs the results.




Diffutils Installation Dependencies


Diffutils depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed.


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